You may gain new insights about your life by reflecting upon your childhood today. This could lead you to feel more self-aware as you begin to uncover the ways in which your past has impacted your current life. Perhaps you might realize the importance your past has had on establishing different patterns of your behavior. Today may be a good time to reflect on these patterns but in a self-loving and supportive way. You can think about an event that happened in your childhood that you feel has had a lasting effect on you. Try writing down your immediate reactions to this event. If you notice that your reaction is negative, you might consider the way this has affected you positively. You can ask yourself the question, “How has this made me grow?” You could find that all of your experiences have had a positive influence in one way or another on you.

Thinking about our childhood experiences allows us to realize not only their effect but also the ways in which they have helped us develop. It is easy to use these experiences to mask our actions. We might think that because something happened to us when we were young, we have free reign to continue to act in the same way. When you become aware of the positive effects of even your most painful experiences, however, you will recognize that you have grown in many ways and that today you are simply shaped by your past, not defined by it.

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